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Comment · 4 months ago
Thank you for doing this <3 Love this showdown
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
How does one use tmux to do this? I'm a tmux user for 10+ years, not sure what you mean by this, am I missing something huge?
Comment · 11 months ago
Can I use it as a jellyfin client? Does that... make sense?

I bought a new tv (samsung s90d) and I haven't found have a great way to watch my jellyfin media. This tv doesn't have a jellyfin client in the samsung app store.

I feel like I'm being stupid here, would love some suggestions :P I've got a local jellyfin server running on a home server in the basement.

Comment · 1 year ago
Woah, how did I not know about that tip about omitting the search pattern? Love it and will be using that lots!

As a thank you, I'll leave you with the way I learned to search/replace, just to give you a slightly different flavour: asterisk, cgn ([c]hange [g]o [n]ext), type replaced, then . (period, to repeat) until I'm done.

Comment · 1 year ago
My friend is the first dev hire at a startup where they prematurely overengineered for scalability. The technical founders had recently exited a previous startup and their rationale was that it makes a future acquisition easier, since a potential acquirer will weigh scalability in their evaluation of the code (and maybe even conflate it with quality). In fact it was a regret from their first startup that they hadn't baked in scalability earlier. I remain skeptical of the decision, but curious if there's any truth to the fact that acquirers weigh scalability in their scorecard?
Comment · 1 year ago
I did the same thing! We had a good laugh.
Comment · 1 year ago
Making electronic music. Any recommendations for where to start?
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for explaining this so clearly! I'm going to try this next time :)
Comment · 1 year ago
Haha, yeah fair point. My comment does seem trite when you put it that way ;)

The point I was trying to make (which I think you understood) was that it was _surprisingly cheap_ to outsource. In the range of ~$100 for our entire collection.

I should mention that this project was undertaken because a relative's house burned down and, with it, all their family photos. So my comment is meant as encouragement for anyone sitting on a treasure trove of family photos who is thinking to digitize: do it! And to inform that this process that I thought would be very painful/tedious is something that can be outsourced for relatively cheap.

Comment · 1 year ago
Just to share my experience: My brother and I recently digitized all our family photos. The process doesn't have to be so daunting. We found someone on facebook marketplace with a high quality scanner, and paid them to scan every photo and put it on a USB stick. I don't remember how much it cost but it was pennies per photo.
Comment · 1 year ago
That fan art is incredible. I would love to read those!
Comment · 2 years ago
Here's my very simple solution

Add this to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc

alias alertme='printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a'

I add this after longish tasks - eg:

python longtest.py; alertme

seeddb; alertme

Comment · 2 years ago
I use the reward system with a slight twist:

I'm not allowed to start a new project until I complete my current one.

Since I have a huge backlog of ideas, my "reward" for finishing a project is that I get to work on the next most exciting idea. Yay!

This forces me to keep the scopes small.

I'm allowed to rescope my current project to something smaller/imperfect after I've started (for example if I discover that my initial vision is going to take too long), but I still have to finish it before I'm allowed to start the next one.

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